How to get help in a big box hardware store or lumberyard: carry a pair of well-broken-in leather gloves.
I’ve felted small objects (mittens) in a stand mixer using the dough paddle.
Soap, very hot water, low speed. Prepare for a lot of sloshing about.
This is a quick, amazing trick that works as long as your lead is long enough, as it instantly releases as soon as they stop pulling. It doesn’t/cannot hurt the dog. In my pet-sitting days I used it for young dogs that outweighed me by about half again and would easily have pulled me flat.
Toody and Muldoon (Joe E. Ross and Fred Gwynne), “Car 54, Where Are You?” TV show
The “Holy Grail” balance checking the comparative weights of the witch and the duck.
Confusing ‘ (feet) and “ (inches). From “This is Spinal Tap”.
Buddy Ebsen and Fess Parker, “Davy Crockett”
(Irene):
- I know I’d like warm greens, and complementary colours to the greens
- yellows, oranges, violets
- would apple-ish greens work with lavenders and purples? don’t like greens with too much blue
(Carol): Golden ochres/tan/orange/violet
(reference for dyeing)
A. “Sloth”
Crayon Green, Lemon Yellow, Fuscia, Cerulean Blue; crochet too tight along bottom
B. (Unnamed) Fuscia, Sky Blue, Cerulean, Crayon Green, Lemon Yellow; crochet was too tight in fuscia area
Apple green to the purples tends to go through brown, though the purplish brown at the top is interesting.
C. “November” Midnight Blue, Brown, Black
The Midnight Blue goes to the navy (not fond of here), the sample is darker than I’d like, and there’s not much variation.
D. (Unnamed) Fuscia, Cerulean, Sky Blue? Midnight Blue?
E. Lemon Yellow, gold, Crayon Green, Cerulean?, Brown?
Maybe a touch of Fuscia
F. “Carnival”
Fuscia, Lemon Yellow, Gold, Cerulean Blue
November 2
swatches: crochet single stand of bootie yarn
One: try again for yellow/orange/violet.
Lemon Yellow/Gold/Fuscia/Sky Blue
Two: try agan for apple green/lavender/purple.
Lemon Yellow (no gold, that went brown with the green)/Crayon Green/SkyBlue/Fuscia
Three and Four: try these two progressions:
Gold, Brown, Fuscia, Black, Cerulean Blue.
Black, Cerulean Blue, hint of Brown, water, water
Five: Black/tones for the CC (smaller amount)
Will lack subtlety but eh
Bootie single strand for less wound-together blanks: clearer color progression
might crochet the results, if it looks promising try Myrtle
I: Gold, Brown, Fuscia, Black, Cerulean Blue.
L. and M. as above, with Lemon Yellow, Sky Blue
Yarn needed by weight – 2 skeins twisted together = 200 gm
Front/back (with contrast yarn but no sleeves) = 362 // 200 + 162 minimum – do 200 + 175
One sleeve = 113; 2 = 226 // 200 + 25 minimum- do 200 + 25
Contrast yarn – original was 178 gm, have about 50 gm left; do 200 grams, 2 original skeins
Body 1 segues into Body 2, which continues into the unneeded X section. The blanks will be roughly proportioned to the sweater body.
Sleeve 1’s blank will be longer/narrower than the body, so that the painted dye coordinates across. The extra at the bottom of Body 2 (175 for body, 25 for sleeves) will plug in there.
The contrast color will be two single-strand skeins vat-dyed separately and then plied together.
Each sweater will use 8 single-ply Sakkie skeins.
